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Working together with a number of agencies, including Customs and Border Protection, the FBI, Interpol and local police departments, the IRS Criminal Investigation unit has helped bring to justice dozens of members of the Sinaloa Cartel.

The Internal Revenue Service began accepting electronically filed individual tax returns Tuesday, opening the tax season on time this year despite its latest budget crunch.

A couple weeks ago I wrote about QuickBooks and how we became the largest QB consultants in New Jersey along with receiving a few clients with very substantial fees. I’ve gotten some calls asking about them and what we did, so here is a description of three of them.

Three New York residents, including one former IRS employee, have been indicted in federal court for defrauding the U.S. government by filing false claims for millions in false refunds.

A group of Democratic lawmakers in the House and Senate have introduced legislation to discourage U.S. corporations from merging with overseas companies to lower their tax bills in a strategy known as inversion that changes the company’s tax domicile.

Grant Thornton reached record combined global revenues of US$4.7 billion, achieving 4.6 percent growth in U.S. dollars (or 4.9 percent in local currency terms) for the fiscal year ended Sept. 30, 2014.

Some of our favorite recent tax fraud cases.

President Barack Obama is proposing new taxes on the wealthiest Americans that would limit their profits from investments and make it harder for them to pass assets to heirs.

A weekly roundup of accounting firm mergers and acquisitions

The Treasury Department and the IRS have released proposed regulations on the application of the research tax credit for internal use at companies in an effort to provide better clarity to businesses and tax professionals on the proper rules.